We covered the work of Flora Lichtman and Sharon Shattuck before, but they’re back with a new series called “Animated Life,” which will explore major discoveries and the legacies they’ve left behind.

To be clear, SquidKid, the prototype toy, has no official ties with Bandai Namco, who owns the Tamagotchi franchise. But SquidKid takes inspiration from the Japanese game, in which children raise a ...

More than half the cells in the human body are not human — they're microbes. Each microbe makes unique molecules, or metabolites, and studying them is crucial for understanding the microbiome's role ...